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The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…
The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I told you at the first, that this City1 was the Church of God that should be in the latter days; but yet not the Church disorderly, and confusedly scattered here and there, without all visible order and discipline, but the Church brought into exact Form and Order, lying every way level and square with the Rule, and Golden Reed of the New▪Testament of Christ; wherefore he calleth it a City, ⟨p. 104⟩a City under Rule. Thus it was in the Type; for when Solomons Temple was to be builded, and the City in after-times, it was not enough that they had Stones and Timber, but every one of them must be such Stones, and such Timber, and must also come under the Rule and Square of the Workman; and so being fitted by Hewers, Saws, Axes and Squares, they were fitly put into the building, 1 Kings 5. 17, 18. and 7. 9, 10, 11, 12. 1 Chron. 22. 2. By this then we may see, with what a holy, exact Line, Rule and Order this Church and City at this day, will be compact and builded; the Members must be all such as shall be made fit for the City of God, by the hewing words of 2the Prophets; they must join in Christian-Communion also according to the Golden Reed of the New Testament, and ministration of the Spirit. Indeed all the time of the reign of Antichrist, the Church, as she was a holy Temple in the Lord, so she was measured with reference to the truth of her Grace, and invisible condition: but as she is to be a City, so she then is to be trodden down,3 and to lie without all Form and Order: but ⟨p. 105⟩when Antichrist is dead, she shall again come into mind, be considered, reared, builded by measure, and inhabited: and observe it, as the Rule of the Carpenter is of use in the building, from the first appearance of the laying of a Stone in order, even till it be in every point and part complete; so the Golden Reed, with which the Angel is here said to measure the City, &c. is to be of use from the first Foundation, even to the laying of the last Stone thereof: As was also fore-showed by the man that is said to measure the pattern of this, in Ezekiel,